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Thanks for that link AD - sadly I think it says it all.
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Well from the BBC, it appears he got off on a technicality - as they couldn\'t prove that he was driving dangerously.
However, I would suggest the judge wanted to get him for something, so gave him the maximum sentences he could for: not having a passport, failing to stop etc.
Face the fact also that he was an illegal immigrant who should have left the country prior to the accident. And the rest gets deleted ND
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Whether or not he was an illegal immigrant is irrelevent.
The fact is that he did what some 500,000 UK residents do all the time, regardless of race, backround or residance status.
He was driving illegaly on the road because our system allowed him to get away with it.
I suggest that we all write to our local MPs to lobby them to pressure the goverment to act over this continuing menace in our society.
Hugo
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Whether or not he was an illegal immigrant is irrelevent. The fact is that he did what some 500,000 UK residents do all the time, regardless of race, backround or residance status. He was driving illegaly on the road because our system allowed him to get away with it.
Well said Hugo, even if the spelling took a knock....
No Dosh
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I will post the same comment as I made back in December about the sad case of Amy Houston, the same still holds true.
'In this country people are found guilty, or not, in a court of law after examination of the facts, not the selective facts as printed in a newspaper; thank God.
When an individual is found guilty the punishment is meted out according to the offence of which he has been convicted, not the offence of which a newspaper would like him to have been convicted, of which he may not even have been charged.
The fact of an individual's circumstances should make no difference as as to his guilt or innocence of a charge in a court of law. As to whether the individual is an asylum seeker is irrelevant to the courts; indeed our justice system may well be a reason for someone wishing to seek asylum in this country in the first place.
Sadly, we are becoming a people who are all too easily provoked into knee jerk reactions with nicely emotive phrases, 'asylum seeker' being just one.
Just remember, when reading anything, the old newspaper saying,'Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story.'
It has never been truer than today.'
Unfortunately we have become a culture which has to have someone to blame if something goes awry, regardless of the circumstances.
Cockle
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and on that excellent note from Cockle, this thread is locked.
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